Imperata cylindrica | Red Baron | Blood Grass Cut flower garden Iris japonica is an evergreen

Iris japonica is an evergreen perennial

Also known as "Bugle"

Teucrium scorodonia | Crispum Marginatum also known as woodland sage or woodland germander spreads by rhizomes and is a mounding groundcover that has the most exquisitely ruffled leaves with a teeny touch of white on the edges

Pinching your asters back by taking out the growing tips in spring will also help to keep your plants nice and compact

Imperata cylindrica | Red Baron | Blood Grass Cut flower garden Iris japonica is an evergreenA striking grass that has stunning appeal in the garden. It is a winter dormant plant but come spring it pops up with bright green blades of grass like foliage that turn cranberry red in summer and progresses to a dark burgundy colour by autumn before going dormant again in winter. Blood Grass as it is also known will easily and reasonably quickly form a dense clump of around 40cm in height and by about the same in width and spreads by underground